[Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HAD?

[Bill Reburn]

Ok you geeks (I mean that with respect of course),

So is the question 'to Defrag or not to Defrag?' still in the air?

On 12/20/02 4:59 PM, "Chris Olson" <chris at astcomm.net> wrote:

> Brett V. Gaspers wrote:
>> Um...hate to say the emperor is wearing no clothes here, but isn't the
>> filesystem used by OSX AND OS9 HFS+? And this is the same filesystem
>> we've been using for several years?
> 
> HFS+ was orginated with MacOS 8.6.  However, the filesystem drivers in
> Darwin are considerably different than traditional MacOS.  Many unix or
> unix-type systems are able to handle a great variety of filesystems, in
> addition to their native filesystem type, and this includes Darwin.
> Linux is probably the most versatile, and can read and write to 33
> different filesystem types, including FAT, NTFS, UFS, and even most
> recently, HFS+ with an alpha quality HFS+ filesystem driver being
> developed at SourceForge.
> 
> So to answer your question, yes.  The filesystems between OS 9 and OS X
> are the same, but OS X is using the Darwin drivers.








Bill Reburn